Run run to reach the temples for Sunset..

Means of transport

TUC TUC

& the how many people can you fit on a moped challenge..
Here only a small family is pictured however we saw many examples of guiness record setting, ranging from family of 5, set of 6 stackable chairs, Tv set, bicycle and last but not least a whole live pig.

Let's adopt one

Day 1 Angor What?

The first bar in Siem Reap

"Eventually relax...Golden Banana"

London-Sing-Temples

Fag stop in Singapore airport, flight delayed 2 hours coincidence missed.

But Sing airlines had new tickets ready for us, lunch, taxi and hotel to nap for 4 hours.. unfortunately we still arrived at 6 pm of 10 am to Phnom Pehn. They also fed us like pigs...

Caught a taxi for the what was supposed to be 3 hours journey to Siem Reap.

The drive was instead 6 hours, after 2 minutes we sort of realised that he could have kidnapped us, shoot us, raped us or for what was visible in the dark road with no signs, taken us anywhere.

We also came up with the brilliant idea that staying awake in turn would have solved the problem.. errr.. it gaves us allucinations... I was soon seeing dragons crossing the road ( they were cows ) and all sort of things.. that for most part were however real.

1 am.. Arrival at Siem Reap, so we gathered not because you could see a thing but from a sign saying "wat" that the headlights happen to illuminate.

Obviously the hotel didn't remember the booking and my printed mail confirmation only provided for a roof in the nearby guesthouse where a 10 cm mosquito was happily splattered on the wall.. But it had a bed and we badly needed one.

ok. so. ready freaky crazy go: Cambodia..

I'm already infamously reknown for posting streams of pictures on my blog.. Well this is gonna be no less.

Highlights:

delayed arrival

allucination on the road

ops.. they forgot you were coming

the temples

the boat broke down

missing the bus that broke down

waiting to board flight due to local photoshoot

a 10m swanky limousine to go.. well nowhere

the jelly fishes...

sunshine

the snake house! aka a russian serial killer freak collection

Cambodia: probably a place you will only go once in your life.
Beautiful, dark, poor, full of controversies.

I came back with 2 main thoughts/questions

The community should adopt a cambodian baby.

Should people be allowed to buy Gucci collars for their pets when there are babies in the world which can't afford to eat?

yes I know all charities and NGOs are working on it.. but still shouldn't Gucci be forbidden to produce such stupid products and people arrested for purchasing them, or all the money sent to poor people?

Today it was releaved that the quest to abolish world poverty by 2015 is not really gonna happen as countries retrieved their pledges and the number of people in need actually increased.
Anyway... back to the pics of the trip..

Triple-fisting blogger Lady V here. OK. So. we want one, just one, blog from Ankor Wat. You in a helmet scaling the walls. In lycra and/or full traditional costume. It's not too much to ask, surely.

Last minute tips:

1. Capsule wardrobe: see above.
2. Airport reading: Diva and The Economist.
3. Water on the flight? Replace with beer.
4. Don't call the natives. They'll call you.
5. Waxing. Brazilian not Cambodian.
6. Rome? No.
7. Shoulders back. Tits out.
8. Some things are meant for video, not pictures. Even if John Lewis do them. Slash Johaness van Stucke.

Oh and another thing

Going over the obvious items to check whether she's forgotten something, the topic falls on torch-lights. and guess what? She's got a f*cking arsenal of them!

Big. bigger or biggest? Is it the size that counts or what you do with it? Baby, all I can say is let the light of Jesus shine brightly in all your dark corners. Let him light up those dark crevasses.

Cambodia

heyyyyy double host blogging here on the momentous occasion of Sicily's departure for Cambodia. We are me and me.

First of all, worth reminding our dear Sicily that this is what she's going to eat during her journey:

Along the road north from Phnom Penh (Cambodia's capital city) to Angkor Wat (famous ancient temples), a town called Skuon is famous for edible spiders. These spiders look similar to furry North American tarantulas. There are road-side street vendors with large woks filled with oil for deep-frying the crispy critters. The spiders are breed in holes in the ground near the town.

Then this other interesting fact about zombie-malaria:

There has been a small outbreak of “zombism” in a small town near the border of Laos in North-Eastern Cambodia. The culprit was discovered to be mosquitoes native to that region carrying a new strain of Malaria which thus far has a 100 percent mortality rate and kills victims in fewer than 2 days. After death, this parasite is able to restart the heart of its victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believed to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during “resurrection.”

Also worth reminding the movies she might be lucky enough to see on a romantic night out:


Luckily it's subtitled.

Triple fisting here... Lady V on the decks. One sentence of advice:

You can never have too many belts, bags or shoes.

Yah.

Hop online with a Wi-Fi Rabbit

Get the best from the web without even turning on your PC – delivered by an all new, updated Wi-Fi rabbit

Nabaztag's your networked internet companion...

Yes, you read that sentence right. The Nabaztag’s a crazy Wi-Fi equipped critter, ready to suck information from cyberspace and present it to you in the weirdest way possible.

The rabbit’s creators, Violet, have just updated the cutesy companion, and suggest waking up to it reading the latest news headlines from your favourite RSS feed, using his posable ears to communicate with friends (if your mate’s mental enough to have one too, it’ll mirror the movement), or using it to alert you when an important e-mail arrives.

All this from a barmy bunny cuter than a kitten in a plantpot.

Among the new features is MP3 playback, meaning Nabaztag can stream your tunes from a far away PC, bringing them with him wherever he goes.

Making the hilarious home helper sit nicely on your network will set you back around £80, and your friends will think you’ve lost the plot. But who says the internet has to come through a computer screen? Not Nabaztag, that’s for sure.

This instead it's the best explanation I came across so far.

You know what? The question that has probably taken more time in my mind is that somebody somewhere must enjoy looking down at the world, make us wake up in the morning, run, eat, sleep, strive to achieve, for then make us die.
I've always wondered, what for? It really doesn't make sense, everybody has found is own way to cope with this, religion, miths, relaxation, sport, you name it, each way is as right or as wrong, makes you find a way to deal with it.. Then of course there are people which will never find a reason.
On the other hand I've always believed that there must be somebody having a fuking hell of a laugh watching all these stressed people running across for nothing.
A masterpiece: yes.. somebody after all is pressing the button.

Community... apparently this is the latest fashion... We are so forward

Guess who?

My view

M's view

Frieze 2006 Mike's view

The Evolution Of Beauty

Probably the most expensive packet of cigarettes

Now... if you were home, without cigarettes, will you take one, despite knowing you are ruining an incredible piece of contemporary art?
Uhm.. I reckon I'll give up and probably replace it with superattack.

berlusconi

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